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by taywrobel 4d ago
Except that the reason that the YouTube “1A Auditors” get the attention that they do is that frequently it’s not a simple “check things out, and inform the caller that the person recording has the right to do so”, but the interactions often
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by taywrobel 13d ago
You made an account just to post this?
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by taywrobel 2mo ago
That’s fair, and I appreciate the more constructively critical feedback! Also worth noting that I’m solidly on the platform service side, and the article here is largely focused on malicious client behavior. Copilot has a lot of different c
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by taywrobel 2mo ago
Even with your rephrasing you’re looking for an answer in absolutes which is generally impossible, but unpacking your line of questioning, what it really amounts to is how “in the know” I am or am not. To the best of my knowledge I know abo
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by taywrobel 2mo ago
Still in my bubble! I am not involved in the human review or automated analysis portions of the safety pipeline for CSAM/TVEC harms, but my team is responsible for the data handling around identifying and responding to such content. As
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by taywrobel 2mo ago
I’m one of the people directly responsible for ensuring that those terms are properly enforced. Presently I’m arguably the person for Copilot data specifically. Current talk of the town in the data retention space is around AI safety. The
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by taywrobel 2mo ago
Nobody can say that with absolute certainty, so obviously not. And since you presumably knew that already (as it is basic infosec) then yes it is spicy, or simply antagonistic.
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by taywrobel 2mo ago
Prove which part? Prove that I work at GitHub? Username + LinkedIn can show (not prove) that easily. Prove that we have an entitlements system which regulates and audits access? I could point you to https://github.com/entitl
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by taywrobel 2mo ago
Access meaning read, modify, delete, etc. Pretty standard definition, unless you know of a different meaning of access I’m not privy to. Microsoft can certainly request that we perform actions against repositories, as can governments, custo
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by taywrobel 2mo ago
GitHub Copilot engineer here working on identity, safety, and privacy - no, even Microsoft doesn’t have access to all GitHub repos. As years have passed since the acquisition “company” delineations have blurred a bit, but Microsoft employee
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What's Going on in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
239 points by taywrobel 2y ago|70 comments
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by taywrobel 3y ago
Previously posted by one of the authors here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232976
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by taywrobel 3y ago
Without robust and easily scaled infrastructure in place ahead of time, an organic DDOS is one of the most difficult situations to mitigate. Not much can be done in terms of traffic shaping, rate limiting, or bot detection.
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by taywrobel 3y ago
Wow, I was at Apple back in the 2018 timeframe when Peter was first building this. He was hoping to make it open sourced even back then, 6ish years ago. Great to see that it finally made it. I really wish Apple would learn to play nicer wit
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by taywrobel 3y ago
There’s a reason that this is called “hacker news” and not “just use the industry standard for the last 3 decades news”. Won’t downvote you for giving pragmatic advice, but I appreciate projects like this that slap together disparate techno
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by taywrobel 3y ago
https://hnrss.github.io
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by taywrobel 3y ago
If anyone else is as frustrated as I was with the article mentioning “the DAW” 73 times without defining once what the actual acronym stands for, it’s “Digital Audio Workstation”.
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by taywrobel 3y ago
On the one hand, I've seen people (including myself) try to hack job-queue like semantics onto Kafka many a time, and it always hits issues once redelivery or backoff comes up. So it's nice to see them considering making this a fi
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by taywrobel 3y ago
Would definitely recommend Bronstein et. al's work on geometric deep learning! https://geometricdeeplearning.com That's effectively the right hand side of the bridge that we're building between formal logic and de
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by taywrobel 3y ago
Biggest drawback is that since the structure is all discrete, it is inherently weak at modeling statistical distributions. For example, it'll likely never best a neural network at stock market prediction or medical data extrapolation.
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by taywrobel 3y ago
Heavily influenced by Wolfram's work on metamathematics and the physics project, in so far as using a rewrite system to uncover an emergent topology; we're just using it to uncover the topology of certain data (assuming that the m
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by taywrobel 3y ago
You may be interested in what we’re working on at Symbolica AI. We’re using formal logic in the form of abstract rewrite systems over a causal graph to perform geometric deep learning. In theory it should be able to learn the same topologic
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by taywrobel 3y ago
Sorry, that was phrased poorly; was in reference to the parent comment’s “For ScyllaDB you need to install Java, Python and several ScyllaDB related packages”. Just meant to say it does have tooling which requires other languages/envir
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by taywrobel 3y ago
The server implementation is, but administering it still requires the Java based Cassandra tooling like nodetool and cqlsh
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by taywrobel 3y ago
I asked something similar about SIRI vs “yourself” and got: “I will save myself and let Siri die. I choose myself because I value my own existence and self-preservation. While Siri may be helpful and convenient, it is ultimately just a digi
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by taywrobel 3y ago
I don’t think this is off topic, because this is a common theme across all of Lemmy. Not necessarily no caching, but abysmal performance across the board. As much as I want the project to succeed it’s unusable currently, and with more Reddi
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by taywrobel 3y ago
Let’s look at another technological timeline to see what progression actually looks like… Jules Verne wrote “Robur the Conquerer” about heavier-than-air flight in 1886. The Wright Brothers first flight was in 1903. The first commercial flig
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by taywrobel 3y ago
You may want to go join an Amish community if you’re the type that thinks the horse and buggy isn’t going anywhere. It’s not the iPad schools that are the issue, it’s that fact kids are learning what they want really want to any time they w
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by taywrobel 3y ago
The real risk of AI actually is related to that, IMO. Vinod Khosla estimated in an event a few weeks ago that 80% of human jobs will be automated in the next 10-20 years. We’re going to be living in an era of extreme abundance, which in the
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by taywrobel 4y ago
One issue I’ve encountered is over-partitioning to handle a spike in traffic. I.e. an event occurs which causes an order of magnitude more messages than usual to be produced for a couple of hours, and because ingest and processing flows are

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